vestis

See also: Vestis and vestís

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Verb

vestis

1. past of vesti

Galician

Verb

vestis

1. (reintegrationist norm) second-person plural present indicative of vestir

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *westis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéstis, from *wes- (“to be dressed”). Cognate with Old Armenian զգեստ (zgest), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti), Tocharian B wastsi, and Ancient Greek εἷμα (heîma, “garment”). The root was also the source of English wear.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛs.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛs.t̪is]

Noun

vestis f (genitive vestis); third declension

1. garment, gown, robe, vestment, clothing, vesture

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	vestis	vestēs
genitive	vestis	vestium
dative	vestī	vestibus
accusative	vestem	vestēs vestīs
ablative	veste	vestibus
vocative	vestis	vestēs

Derived terms

• vestiō

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: veste
    • → French: veste (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: vesti

Verb

vestīs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of vestiō

References

• “vestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vestis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to dress oneself: induere vestem (without sibi)
    
  • to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)
    
  • to undress: vestem ponere (exuere)
    
  • (ambiguous) drapery: vestis stragula or simply vestis
    
• “vestis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vestis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vest”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Portuguese

Verb

vestis

1. second-person plural present indicative of vestir